Two army personnel were killed and one another was critically injured after a tank shell suddenly exploded during practice at Babina Cantonment Field Firing Range in Jhansi on Thursday evening.
The training centre comes under the Southern Command.
The incident was probed by the army personnel and the bodies were sent for autopsy.
Reports said that the soldiers of a unit of 55 Armed Regiment were engaged in a war exercise at Babina Cantonment Field Firing Range in Babina, Jhansi on Thursday night. During the exercise, two soldiers were killed due to the explosion of a tank shell, while the condition of one was critical.
Subedar Sumer Singh Bagaria of Rajasthan and Sukanta Mandal of West Bengal died in the mishap while lance naik Pradeep Yadav of Sant Kabir Nagar was critically injured and admitted to the Military Hospital for treatment.
According to sources, the accident happened during night firing exercise at the Babina firing range on Thursday night. During firing, a bullet struck the barrel of a T-90 tank, setting it on fire. Due to the fire in the tank, the shell exploded with a bang and two soldiers were killed on the spot.